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Re: Any Chance ?


From: Michal Suchanek
Subject: Re: Any Chance ?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:57:20 +0100

On 28 March 2013 16:38,  <address@hidden> wrote:

> Where I am going with this, if it is ALL possible to expand  the ncurse
> library to address such things as
> this terminology 0.3 terminal emulator.
>
> As it looks, someone has developed a terminal emulator with advanced
> escape sequences that can display
> graphics, movies and pdf files.
>
> We could than change text-based user interfaces to "terminal" based user
> interfaces.
>
> Just asking ...

Well, ncurses has taken the big step to Unicode. That's about as far
as curses takes you. The applications that use curses know how to
handle characters. All are the same height and either half-width or
full-width (or 'normal' and double).  How do you propose to extend the
curses interface to display arbitrary ojects of arbitrary size? Not to
mention that the applications need to know about the non-text objects,
too.

Thanks

Michal



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